Police say boxes of documents containing personal information from the
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research were supposed to be shredded but
instead turned up last week in an off-base trash bin. A resident of a
suburban Washington neighborhood near the Army medical research's campus
found "numerous boxes" in the trash receptacle on Friday and alerted
Montgomery County police.

Officers eventually returned the boxes to the research center.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Medical Command says the files were
research study records.